an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought, so i  smoked a pipe  and  got 
 dressed,  and  outside  the   rain   had 
 turned into  snow so thick that  it  was 
 as dense fog ... and then i  went to get 
 the mail, but there was  a woman and  we 
 talked a  little. now because i was high 
 and  it was snowing  so funny and  i had 
 an umbrella  against the snow, but  snow 
 all over my face  anyway, and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life